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EXPERT GROUP MEETING BANGKOK DECEMBER 8-9 2005

Venue & Participation & Date

• UN Conference Centre,

Bangkok

• About 50 participants
• 20 countries
• 22 papers
• December 8-9 2005

Organising Committee

• Yap Kieo Sheng, UNESCAP,

Bangkok

• Clarissa Augustinus,

UN/Habitat, Nairobi

• Adnan Hameed Aliani,

UNESCAP Bangkok

• Asa Jonsson, UNESCAP,

Bangkok

• Jan Meeuwissen, UN/Habitat,

Fukuoka

• Paul/Pauline/Christiaan, FIG

Commission 7

Conclusions: Land is a political issue

• UN/ECE 1996 Land

Administration Guidelines

• FAO 2002 Land Tenure

and Rural Development

• UN/Habitat 2003

Handbook on Best Practices, Security of Tenure and Access to Land

• UN/Habitat 2003 Pro Poor

Land Management

Land: a politicial issue

• World Bank 2003 Land

Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction

• EU 2004 Guidelines to

support land policy design and reform processes in developing countries

• World Bank 2005 Doing

Business: Remove Obstacles to Growth

Land: a political issue

• Germany, 1998, Land

Tenure in Development Cooperation

• UK, 2002, Better

livelihoods for people: the role of Land Policy

• Netherlands, 2003, Mutual

Interests, Mutual responsibilities

Conclusions:Common approach needed

• Only innovative

institutional arrangements can cope with increasing populations, greater investments in land, economic growth and more social welfare.

• Lack of these

arrangements lead to land grabbing, conflict, resources misuse, undermines productive and economic potential.

What to do?

• Exclusive focus on formal

title proven inappropriate

• Much greater attention to

existing institutional arrangements

• Stronger rights for women,

herders, indigenous people

• Avoid uncritical emphasis
• n land sales markets
• Rental markets provide

more equity, productivity, long term investments, if restrictions are eliminated

What to do?

• Land reform can only be

fully utilized if requirements and scope

• f intervention is carefully

compared with others

• Land issue is part of a

broader development policy

Conclusions: Impact on land administration

• Innovative definition of property

rights

• Simple procedures, quick, and

low transaction costs

• Simple transparent systems,

participatory

• Low cost
• Efficient and effective
• Free from political pressure
• Low cost demarcation
• Mechanisms conflict resolution
• SDI at low cost, transparent

and accessible for linking registers of different categories and at different levels

Conclusions: some examples

• Analiza Rebualta-Teh
• Thilak Hewawasam
• Danh Hung Vo
• Jude Wallace
• Siraj Sait
• Paul Rabé
• Bo Gustafson
• van der Molen/Lemmen
• ArbindTuladhar
• Spike Boydell
• Rajasekhar
• Bagadai Naranchimeg
• Sovann Sar
• Vilaphone Virachit
• Pedro de Sousa
• TRung Tran Nhu
• Evelyn Tehrani
• Debolina Kundu
• Chris Lunnay
• Benny
• Augustinius
• Bell

Impact Commission 7 workplan

• Social Land Tenure
• Pro poor land land administration
• Pro-poor land management
• Gendered approach
• Community involvement
• ICT application